---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001049606-23-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIX"
cik: "0001049606"
company_name: "COMPX INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T15:34:44.195419+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CompX declares $0.25 quarterly dividend; annual meeting elects directors and approves pay

## Summary
- Regular quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share declared, payable June 13, 2023 to holders of record June 5, 2023.
- All eight director nominees elected with at least 92.1% of votes cast; quorum of 96.5% of 12,307,157 shares.
- Say-on-pay resolution approved by 90.2% of shares; annual advisory vote frequency chosen by 95.0%.
- Dividend unchanged from prior quarter; capital allocation policy remains consistent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001049606-23-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIX
- cik: 0001049606
- company_name: COMPX INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049606/000104960623000017/0001049606-23-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049606/000104960623000017/cik-20230524x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049606-23-000017
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049606-23-000017.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049606-23-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  COMPX INTERNATIONAL INC shareholders approved Say-on-Pay, Nonbinding Advisory Vote Approving Executive Compensation at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: The registrant’s stockholders adopted a resolution, on a nonbinding advisory basis, approving the compensation of the registrant’s named executive officers as described in the registrant’s 2023 proxy statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049606/000104960623000017/0001049606-23-000017-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COMPX INTERNATIONAL INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: The registrant’s stockholders elected Thomas E. Barry, Loretta J. Feehan, Terri L. Herrington, Scott C. James, Kevin B. Kramer, Ann Manix, Michael S. Simmons, and Mary A. Tidlund as directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049606/000104960623000017/0001049606-23-000017-index.htm

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